Staff Engineer, Product Development

at  CDM Smith

Trinnex, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDM Smith, is seeking a Staff Engineer, Product Development to join our growing Digital Solutions team. Trinnex is building next generation tools that integrate sensor/IoT data, models, and geospatial data and machine learning to solve unique engineering and environmental issues.
In this role, you will lead an agile development team and collaborate with domain experts to define and build software solutions, design the underlying architecture, support efficient implementation of various front-end applications, develop effective databases to support a wide range of data integration options, write efficient APIs, test software, and ensure developed solutions are reliable and secure.

Responsibilities in this role include:

• Inspire and lead the development team.
• Support creativity, efficient decision making and elegant code.
• Write and review clean code.
• Liaise with architect, developers, designers, and DevOps to identify new features, and review code and deliverables.
• Generate reusable code libraries.
• Support innovative front-end and back-end data storage solutions and delivery tools.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Modify database tables, fields, etc., and make database design decisions up to high complexity.
• Work with the DevOps team to build deployment packages, use issue tracking software, use source code control, and perform other supporting activities related to application development projects.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrable knowledge of front-end frameworks, including React, Context API and React Hooks.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience working with REST, GraphQL, and other APIs.
• Demonstrable knowledge of back-end languages and frameworks, including C#/.net and JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js, NextJS and/or Express.
• Experience with geospatial solutions, including ESRI, PostGIS and Mapbox.
• Experience with cloud deployment.
• Excellent problem solving and research skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and collaboration skills for working with team members, users, and external stakeholders.
• Possesses excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to cultivate relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree
• 6 years of related experience
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
  Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience leading or mentoring junior staff highly preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP specifically) and Kubernetes cluster environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as build and deployment pipelines.

• Inspire and lead the development team.
• Support creativity, efficient decision making and elegant code.
• Write and review clean code.
• Liaise with architect, developers, designers, and DevOps to identify new features, and review code and deliverables.
• Generate reusable code libraries.
• Support innovative front-end and back-end data storage solutions and delivery tools.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Modify database tables, fields, etc., and make database design decisions up to high complexity.
• Work with the DevOps team to build deployment packages, use issue tracking software, use source code control, and perform other supporting activities related to application development projects.
• Perform other duties as required